If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is read more
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
It looks easy, but It's not at all.
It looks easy, but It's not at all.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
